i'm trying to use a prefect secret in the most basic way and am having some difficulty...my call

Secret("SECRET_KEY").get()

fails when I try to register my flow:

ValueError: Local Secret "SECRET_KEY" was not found.

my backend is set to

cloud

, and I do not have

use_local_secrets = true

set in my config.toml, so I'm not sure why prefect is trying to actually retrieve a local secret there

It sounds like it: "For Cloud users, if the secret is not found in local context and

config.cloud.use_local_secrets=False

, the base

Secret

class queries the Prefect Cloud API for a stored secret." So you satisfy the first condition, but without explicitly setting it to false, the second condition is not satisfied.

@Amanda Wee can you link me to where you're reading that? I don't see it on https://docs.prefect.io/orchestration/concepts/secrets.html#using-a-secret – maybe this page of the documentation needs a makeover

@Sean Talia We’re using prefect cloud too, this is how we’ve been setting secrets:

prefect.context.setdefault("secrets",{})
    prefect.context.secrets["EMAIL_USERNAME"] = (SOME_EMAIL)

The first line checks if the

secrets

dictionary already exists, and if it doesn’t, creates it for you. The second one shows you how to add values to it. I hope this helps!